Animals / Bird

American goldfinch

Spinus tristis · Fringillidae

The American goldfinch is a small North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter.

Where the American goldfinch lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Ontario, Texas, California, Ohio, Massachusetts and Illinois.

See the American goldfinch’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 20,310,699 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.